The Indic MediaWiki Developers UG is organizing national level Wikimedia hackathon in India on 20-22 December 2024.

Meta page at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Indic_Wikimedia_Hackathon_Bhubaneswar_2024

Based on our experience and learnings from organizing several hackathons in the past, we’d like to try a slightly different format of program and participation. Usually, the tasks are populated a few days before the event, and selected participants sign up for specific tasks on the first day of the event. While this works well, it creates a challenge where we might not have tasks relevant to the skillset or interest of the participants. Also, during the hackathon, while we are able to solve bugs, it is hard to track the impact collectively. For this hackathon, the tasks have been curated in a way that a set of tasks collectively complete the substantial development of a tool or workflow, so that it can be said to reach a stable version. This can also be useful to drive engagement post-event where developers can continue to work on the task to reach completion.

We request support from the Language Technical Support team to share a few tasks (which are beginner to intermediate) in the Language Support area (10-15 tasks that are focused on 1-2 areas would be good), and won't take a lot of time to get oriented with the code base. It is preferred to have tasks related to Indic languages, but not strictly necessarily. Along with the tasks, any ideas for sessions such as Introduction to Translatewiki etc. would also be helpful.